This week I am 16 weeks pregnant. I always consider this a bit of mini milestone
being half way between the 12 and 20 weeks scans, and, if you believe the week
by week pregnancy guides, this week baby puts on a growth spurt meaning you
actually start to look and feel properly pregnant (if you didn’t already). Also, in my case it is the week I am
beginning to feel the first flutterings of movement. A very reassuring feeling!
I had my first midwife’s appointment this week since I was 7
weeks pregnant. My first appointment
where she actually checks the baby’s heartbeat with a doppler. It’s hard to believe that for the majority of
people that don’t pay for a private scan or buy their own doppler, this is the
first opportunity they will have had to hear their baby’s heartbeat! I don’t think I could ever be patient enough
to wait that long!!! ;-)
First of all I was given the results of my blood tests taken
at 7 weeks and the 12 week combined blood and ultrasound Down Syndrome
risk. My blood results were all fine and
I was given a combined screening risk of 1:8394. This was higher than when I was pregnant with
Celeste but still on the pretty low side.
The midwife then checked my urine and blood pressure. Nothing abnormal was detected in my urine and
my blood pressure was 100/65. So all
good there too! :-)
Finally, I got to get up on the table. As soon as the midwife turned the Doppler on
we could hear baby kicking away. She
seemed a bit taken aback with how active he/she was :-) When baby finally stopped moving long enough
to detect a heartbeat, we got a good, clear reading of 160 BPM.
The midwife doesn’t want to see me again until I’m 22 weeks,
not until after my detailed anatomy scan.
I really hope she sees me more often than the last time in the last
couple of months of the pregnancy as I am sure she would have realised how low
Celeste was if she had seen me in the couple of weeks preceding my premature
labour.
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